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OK, you've all heard me rhapsodize (pun intended) about lots of live and recorded music, and in particular this classic "lost" album.
The thing is, it's lost no more. Brian Wilson and original lyricist Van Dyke Parks finished writing and sequencing the album last year. Wilson's band premiered it in London to 10-minute standing ovations and rave reviews. This past summer, they recorded a new version of the completed album (it comes out on Sept. 28). I've heard lo-fi .mp3s of some of the tracks and it is unbelievably good.
This ain't "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Be True To Your School," now. It's a unified, three-movement pop symphony with jaw-dropping instrumental and vocal arrangements, and lyrics that are alternately impressionistic, heart-tugging, poetic and funny. Subject matter includes westward expansion, the loss of childhood innocence, the alchemical elements, pirates and vegetables.
(hey, maybe I should get a job posting stuff to message boards about Josh Groban.)
Wilson and his band will perform the completed SMiLE, along with other solo and BB stuff, at Carnegie Hall on October 12 & 13. If you're familiar with SMiLE, then you know that's the appropriate venue for this heretofore "inappropriate" music. I'm posting now about this because until this past week, ticket sales had been gradual, but now they're suddenly taking off and both shows may sell out soon.
If you like intelligent, sophisticated pop music--hell, if you like music--consider going.
The thing is, it's lost no more. Brian Wilson and original lyricist Van Dyke Parks finished writing and sequencing the album last year. Wilson's band premiered it in London to 10-minute standing ovations and rave reviews. This past summer, they recorded a new version of the completed album (it comes out on Sept. 28). I've heard lo-fi .mp3s of some of the tracks and it is unbelievably good.
This ain't "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Be True To Your School," now. It's a unified, three-movement pop symphony with jaw-dropping instrumental and vocal arrangements, and lyrics that are alternately impressionistic, heart-tugging, poetic and funny. Subject matter includes westward expansion, the loss of childhood innocence, the alchemical elements, pirates and vegetables.
(hey, maybe I should get a job posting stuff to message boards about Josh Groban.)
Wilson and his band will perform the completed SMiLE, along with other solo and BB stuff, at Carnegie Hall on October 12 & 13. If you're familiar with SMiLE, then you know that's the appropriate venue for this heretofore "inappropriate" music. I'm posting now about this because until this past week, ticket sales had been gradual, but now they're suddenly taking off and both shows may sell out soon.
If you like intelligent, sophisticated pop music--hell, if you like music--consider going.